A lot of laughs, here! Maybe even funnier are the albums that actually get made that seem almost as ridiculous. I must admit, I didn't rush out and buy the Pat Boone Sings Heavy Metal CD, but it probably could match most of these suggestions. And then, there are rock stars, like Paul McCartney and Billy Joel who try to write "classical" music. "Serious" music. I haven't heard any of their stuff, either, and probably never will because I wouldn't buy it, and I can't believe that it will ever be heard on the radio. Opera stars doing pop and rock music are a "classic" example of the mismatching of singing styles. Everyone from Mario Lanza to Pavrotti has tried it. Lanza had a successful career doing popular music at a time when reworkings of classical music were often heard on the radio. I don't think he could do it, now. I see that Rod Stewart has an album of standards out, with a repertoire much more like Frank Sinatra or Ella Fitzgerald might record. The reviews have been kind-hearted but certainly not praiseworthy. Kind of a "Way To Go, Minus."
And Aretha Franklin has tried her voice at Opera. Actors want to be singers, singers want to be actors, rock stars want to sing "Serious"
music, highly trained singers want to rock out. It rarely works. Reality is sometimes funnier than anything the most fertile mind could imagine.

Jerry